Progressive politics in Latin America needs a Green Democratic Revolution
A green populism could be the basis of a new kind of politics in Latin America, one that embraces many of the region’s struggles in a challenge to neoliberalism
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Published in:Rethinking Populism: OpinionTo achieve real political change, populism is necessaryBut the Left needs to know how to mobilise the people against power blocs
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Published in:Rethinking Populism: OpinionThe systemic metamorphosis of Greece’s once radical left-wing SYRIZA partySYRIZA is not the same party that rose to power in 2015 – is this the end of its populist adventure?
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Published in:Rethinking Populism: InterviewSituating populism beyond the deformation of Eurocentric and post-democratic narrativesSpyros Sofos talks to Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia about their book ‘Seven Essays on Populism’ and...
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Published in:Rethinking Populism: OpinionRethinking politics, populism and platformsHow can we create a progressive ‘popular force’ in an era of digital media platforms dominated by the innovations of...
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Published in:Rethinking PopulismGlobal transformation: the precariat overcoming populismA contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know...
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Published in:Rethinking PopulismA world to win and a planet to saveLeft populism and socialist strategy under Corbyn – how could this prepare us for the Green New Deal? In response to...
Charting the waters: populism as a gendered phenomenon
Take this first “walking tour” of openDemocracy’s rich archive of material dealing with the complex relation between populism and gender.
#RethinkingPopulism - What do women want from populists?
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Published in:Rethinking PopulismThe ‘gender turn’ of the populist radical rightGender perspectives are essential to understanding the means through which populist radical right parties...
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Published in:Rethinking PopulismThe “genocide on mothers”: moral panic underpinning anti-gender campaigns in CzechiaHas the new femonationalism solved the riddle of how to be a strong woman while supporting a fundamentally...
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Published in:Rethinking PopulismThe new age politics of gender in the Hindutva movement and faith-based identity contestationWhile motherhood may be associated with nurturing bodies and minds, in contemporary Hindu nationalist discourse it...
What do women want from populists?
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Published in:Rethinking PopulismMarine Le Pen’s goosebump politicsMarine Le Pen as a rightwing populist is rather adored by supporters for her extraordinary ability to be a sexual...
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Published in:Rethinking PopulismBringing gender into the populism debate: a guided walkopenDemocracy’s latest partnership launches with an ambitious question to answer.
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Published in:50.50Why are women joining far-right movements, and why are we so surprised?Women’s ‘shocking’ participation in far-right politics has received much media attention. But is this a new trend,...
From our archives: Populism as a gendered phenomenon
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Published in:50.50The war on Europe’s women and LGBTIQ people has only just begunThe far right did not conquer the European Parliament – but this doesn’t mean the threats to our rights have...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?Getting to know you: mapping the anti-feminist face of right-wing populism in EuropeThese three parties are only a part of the right-wing populist anti-feminism that is spreading across Europe. The...
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Published in:50.50What is ‘femonationalism’?Academic Sara Farris talks about the 'instrumentalisation' of migrant women in Europe by right-wing nationalists –...
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Published in:50.50The Backlash podcast episode 1: women and the far rightWe talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland,...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in GermanyWhat kind of campaigning could outweigh the increasing power of implicit and explicit alliances by far-right actors...
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Published in:50.50No laughing matter: Women and the new populism in TurkeyStirring up moral anxieties over women's conduct and propriety is key to a populist discourse that pits a virtuous...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismPrecarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformationThe proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismIs Left populism possible?We need to fight precarity now and to ensure that, in the process, we retain and enhance the best of our...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismThe blind spots of Left populismWhat the left needs is to refocus on its core principles of social justice and have the courage to defend them.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismWhy a populist Left should rally around a green democratic transformationThe Left must draw a frontier between the people and the oligarchy, and ecological transition is the thing around...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Could Turkey’s opposition provide a model for the defeat of populist authoritarian rule?COVID-19 could strengthen global resilience against populist authoritarianism. Those movements should also learn...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismGender and authoritarian populism in Turkey: the two phases of AKP ruleUnless a strong democratic left alternative appears, it will not be possible to curb and reverse the patriarchal...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Matteo Salvini, renaturalizing the racial and sexual boundaries of democracyIn Italy, Salvini has set out to expand the independentist and regionalist dimension that formerly characterized his...
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Published in: 50.50Why we’re Right: young women on the UK’s growing right-wing scene in their own wordsRejecting feminism and the political left that has apparently neglected them for too long, four young women explain...
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Published in: 50.50What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are...
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Published in: 50.50Under Trump, we are all womenThe same strategies used against women for decades by the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement are now,...
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Published in: HomePopulism, the era of Trump and the rise of the far rightSeveral reasons for opening our eyes to the new/old politics of identity.
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Published in: HomeTrump’s macho populismDonald Trump's treatment of women is a matter of politics, not just style: rooted in populist and fascist ideas that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“We have created a monster”On the recent electoral successes of Germany's extreme right and its ideological background.
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Published in: 50.50Race, caste and gender in FranceCriminalizing Islam in the name of feminism is fundamentally paradoxical: Anti-racism and anti-sexism must work together.
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Published in: 50.50The gender wars in Turkey: a litmus test of democracy?The pent up fury and grief released by Özgecan Aslan’s attempted rape and gruesome murder reveal deep fault lines...
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Published in: 50.50Gender violence, Narendra Modi and the Indian electionsThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a good chance of winning the forthcoming general election in India. Amrit...
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Published in: 50.50Anti-immigrant sentiment: time to talk about gender?The way in which gender figures in the picture of anti-immigrant sentiment is rarely discussed, yet anti-immigrant...
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Published in: 50.50Vaginal obsessions in Turkey: an Islamic perspectiveRecent controversies over women's sexuality, abortion and reproductive rights in Turkey reveal unacceptable...
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